Iran protests enter 5th week * Beit El man shot in sukkah * Rise of Pentecostal Christianity * Israeli ex-Saudi’s plea * Why won’t Israel help Ukraine on missile defense

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, October 15, 2022 [Women, schoolgirls said in forefront as Iranian protesters again pour into streets]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Demonstrations sparked by death of Mahsa Amini enter fifth week; Saturday’s events galvanized under slogan, ‘The beginning of the end!’]( [Call for day of widespread Iran protest as Khamenei says nation ‘cannot be uprooted’]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [From the web / Friday prayer massacre: Snipers fired into crowd in deadly southeast Iran crackdown]( [Israeli lightly hurt in his sukkah in W. Bank shooting; IDF kills Palestinian gunman]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Military and Shin Bet say 2nd suspect captured following hourslong manhunt after he fled scene at settlement of Beit El]( [TikTok bans account of Palestinian armed group behind West Bank shootings]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Inside story / East Jerusalem refugee camp reels from Israeli crackdown]( By [AP and TOI staff]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [As West works on Ukraine missile defense needs, Israel shows no sign of pitching in]( [Jerusalem has repeatedly rebuffed calls for sending Iron Dome to Kyiv since war began; Ukraine’s envoy laments lack of cooperation against ‘common enemy’ Iran]( [EU ministers to discuss potential Iran sanctions for lethal drone supply to Russia]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Putin says Russia’s unpopular mobilization of reservists to end in 2 weeks]( By [Sabra Ayres]( Author interview [Are the End Times near? How Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [In her new book ‘Beyond Belief,’ journalist Elle Hardy writes about her encounters around the globe with the fast-growing religion, and theorizes about what makes it so popular]( [Meretz chief: IDF soldiers must be restrained and ‘firm hand’ taken with settlers]( By [TOI staff]( [Zahava Galon calls on Gantz to declare hilltop youth a terror organization; says far-right MK Ben Gvir willing ‘to pay the blood of Jews and Arabs’ for the sake of campaign photos]( [IDF drone crashes in Nablus due to malfunction; armed faction captures it]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( Top Ops [Ilyse Muser Shainbrown]( [The little sukkah that could]( [For years, it was a place to celebrate our Judaism – this year, I discovered our sukkah could also be a temporary refuge from obsessing over antisemitism]( [Hadar Susskind]( [The obsession with Palestinian textbooks]( [West Bank kids don’t need a biased curriculum to learn to hate the Occupation and see Zionism as the enemy – they learn it from their daily lives]( [Israeli born in Saudi Arabia implores king to allow him to visit before he dies]( By [TOI staff]( [David Shuker grew up in small Jewish community in Najran that dissolved in 1948 amid regime hostility; ‘I want to visit the place where I was born. I came from the dirt of Najran’]( [Italy’s lower house of parliament elects far-right, anti-gay speaker]( By [Ella Ide]( [A day after Senate appoints fascist memorabilia-collecting speaker, parliament picks Lorenzo Fontana, who has voiced support for Greece’s Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party]( [Slovakia LGBTQ bar shooter called for murder of all Jews]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [Nazi sympathizers vandalize small Spanish town once named Fort Kill the Jews]( By [David I. Klein]( [Biden: Iran protests ‘awakened something that won’t be quieted for a long time’]( By [AP]( [US leader says he was ‘stunned’ by the demonstrations; Harris and Blinken, meeting with Iran activists, also express solidarity]( [Iran takes down billboard of famous women in hijab after some object to being used]( By [AFP]( [Ahead of sanctions meeting, Iran urges EU take ‘realistic approach’ over protests]( By [AFP]( [‘Waltz with Bashir’ illustrator’s creativity on exhibit in Tel Aviv]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [‘Illustrations: David Polonsky’ offers glimpse at how the artist helped craft the successful film, as well as his work on an Anne Frank graphic novel and various other projects]( [The daily edition] Paralyzed Nation How Israel's dysfunctional electoral system still can be fixed [Toi Community Exclusive] [Astronomers detect brightest light flash ever seen, probably from black hole’s birth]( By [Issam Ahmed]( [Scientists believe the burst of gamma-rays came from event that occurred 2.4 billion light years from Earth; flash has impacted long-wave radio communications in Earth’s ionosphere]( [Fatah, Hamas sign reconciliation deal hoping to end 15-year-long rift]( By [AFP]( [Palestinian factions have been at odds since Hamas won 2006 elections, which were never recognized by the international community, and later ousted Fatah from Gaza Strip]( [Egypt moves to promote long-stalled development of Gaza offshore gas]( By [Adel Zaanoun]( [Man shot dead in Arraba, teenager injured by stray bullet in Jisr az-Zarqa]( By [TOI staff]( [According to the Abraham Initiatives, which tracks violence in the Arab community, 89 Arabs have been killed in crime-related incidents in Israel since the beginning of the year]( [Death toll rises to 40 in Turkey coal mine blast; 1 miner still missing]( By [Mehmet Guzel and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY]( [11 injured and hospitalized, while 58 others managed to get out of the mine on their own or were rescued unharmed; Erdogan to visit scene of accident]( [Three endangered vultures found dead in southern Israel after suspected poisoning]( By [Sue Surkes and TOI staff]( [Israel Nature and Parks Authority opens probe]( [In breakthrough, Team Israel to boast current MLBers on World Baseball Classic slate]( By [Hillel Kuttler]( [Fully half of team could be made up of top athletes from professional baseball, a development that could position it to far exceed its record in past international competitions]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Harry Potter’s Hagrid, actor Robbie Coltrane, dies aged 72]( By [AFP]( [UK’s under-fire leader Truss sacks Treasury chief Kwarteng, ditches reform plans]( By [DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless]( [Pressure mounts on LA councilmembers to resign over racist remarks]( By [brian melley and Don Thompson]( [15-year-old in custody on suspicion of killing 5 in North Carolina shooting]( By [AFP]( [The daily edition]() [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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